Athena in 2005

2005 was 95% worth living.

In 2005, Athena did 16 things, went 17 places, met 0 people, and consumed 207 products.

Athena has written 3 year in review entries…

Years: 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. get a passport — completed about 1 year later
  2. learn to drive — completed about 1 year later
  3. Learn to knit — completed about 1 year later
  4. Try out 43 Things — completed about 1 year later
  5. Fly First Class
  6. visit cuba while castro is alive
  7. Live in another country
  8. travel the world
  9. live in london
  10. live passionately
  11. Learn to cook
  12. have better posture — completed over 2 years later
  13. Get a digital SLR camera
  14. see the northern lights
  15. Go to graduate school
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. eat healthier — Worth doing!
  2. Become fluent in more than one language — Worth doing!
  3. Practice Yoga — Worth doing!
  4. learn french — Worth doing!
  5. Visit China — Worth doing!
  6. get a job
  7. Learn to speak cantonese — Worth doing!
  8. Give blood — Worth doing!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. have a dog

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March

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Keep a journal — Worth doing!
  2. start using the library — Worth doing!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. have conversations late into the night with fascinating people — completed about 1 year later
  2. be more confident

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May

Read:
  1. Boy Meets Girl
  2. Every Boy's Got One — Not worth consuming
  3. The Princess Diaries, Volume IV: Princess in Waiting (Princess Diaries) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Princess Diaries, Volume V: Princess in Pink (Princess Diaries) — Worth consuming!
  5. The Princess Diaries, Volume VI: Princess in Training (Princess Diaries) — Worth consuming!
  6. The Boy Next Door — Not worth consuming
  7. Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants: Even Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
  8. Project Princess (The Princess Diaries, Vol. 4 1/2) — Not worth consuming
  9. Away Laughing on a Fast Camel: Even More Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson)
  10. All-American Girl — Not worth consuming
  11. Princess in the Spotlight (The Princess Diaries, Vol. 2) — Worth consuming!
  12. Princess in Love (The Princess Diaries, Vol. 3) — Worth consuming!
  13. Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics,)
  14. Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
  15. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
Watched:
  1. A Fish Called Wanda — Worth consuming!
  2. The Remains of the Day (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Say Anything — Worth consuming!
  4. The Ruling Class - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  5. Monty Python Live — Worth consuming!
  6. The Thin Man (Snap case) — Worth consuming!
  7. Russian Ark: The Masterworks Edition — Worth consuming!
  8. Fanny and Alexander (Special Edition Five-Disc Set) - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  9. Finding Neverland (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. Closer (Superbit Edition) — Worth consuming!
  11. Sideways (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  12. Monty Python's Life of Brian - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  13. Animal Farm — Not worth consuming
  14. The Full Monty — Worth consuming!

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. stop drinking soda — completed 8 months later
  2. identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money) — completed about 1 year later
  3. Buy a new computer — completed about 1 year later
  4. Write a will
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. write in my journal every day — Worth doing!
  2. Help test Tootietails: the next new thing from The Robot Co-op — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Montreal — visited 5 months later
  2. Hong Kong — visited about 1 year later
  3. Macau — visited about 1 year later
  4. Byward Market — visited about 1 year later
  5. Scotland
  6. Argentina
  7. Maldives
  8. Turkey
  9. California
  10. Praha
  11. Venezia
  12. Switzerland
  13. Australia
  14. Greece
  15. India
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Ottawa — Worth visiting!
  2. China — Worth visiting!
  3. Canada — Worth visiting!
  4. Toronto — Worth visiting!
  5. Québec Province — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly — Worth consuming!
  2. White Teeth: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  3. Island of the Blue Dolphins — Worth consuming!
  4. A Room with a View (Classic) — Worth consuming!
  5. A Year in the Merde — Not worth consuming
Listened to:
  1. X&Y — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. My Neighbor Totoro (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Ghost in the Shell — Worth consuming!
  3. His Girl Friday — Worth consuming!
  4. In the Mood for Love - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  5. Toy Story 2 — Worth consuming!
  6. The Gold Rush (2 Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. The Kid (2 Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. The Lady Eve - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  9. The Great Dictator (2 Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. The Circus (2 Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  11. Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  12. Rain Man (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!

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July

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. wake up when my alarm clock goes off — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Parliament Hill — Worth visiting!
  2. Niagara Falls — Worth visiting!
  3. CN Tower — Worth visiting!
  4. Québec City — Worth visiting!
  5. Ontario — Worth visiting!
  6. Zhuhai — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. The Alexandria Quartet Boxed Set (Alexandria Quartet) — Worth consuming!
  2. To the Lighthouse — Worth consuming!
  3. Fahrenheit 451 — Worth consuming!
  4. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe — Worth consuming!
  5. The Prophet — Worth consuming!
  6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) — Worth consuming!
  7. The Celestine Prophecy — Worth consuming!
  8. The Old Man and The Sea — Worth consuming!
  9. 100 Selected Poems — Worth consuming!
  10. Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook: Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking — Worth consuming!
  11. Eating My Words : An Appetite For Life — Worth consuming!
  12. Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers : More Mad, Marvy Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson)
Watched:
  1. Like Water for Chocolate — Worth consuming!
  2. The Motorcycle Diaries (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Aviator (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. Fargo (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. The General — Worth consuming!
  6. Jules and Jim - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  7. To Have and Have Not (Snap case) — Worth consuming!
  8. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes — Worth consuming!
  9. The African Queen — Worth consuming!
  10. Mambo Italiano — Worth consuming!

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. play the piano again
  2. exercise regularly — completed over 2 years later
  3. re-learn the violin.
  4. learn to dance
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" — Worth doing!
  2. read Anna Karenina — Worth doing!
  3. Master this shirt-folding technique — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Mississauga — Not worth visiting
  2. Upper Canada Village — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Identity: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  2. The BFG — Worth consuming!
  3. The Eyre Affair — Worth consuming!
  4. Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next Novels) — Worth consuming!
  5. Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Trilogy (Paperback)) — Worth consuming!
  6. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish — Worth consuming!
  7. A Clockwork Orange — Worth consuming!
  8. Jane Eyre (Signet Classics) — Worth consuming!
  9. The House of Mirth (Signet Classics) — Worth consuming!
  10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream — Worth consuming!
  11. A Long Way Down — Worth consuming!
  12. Garlic and Sapphires : The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise — Worth consuming!
  13. The Motorcycle Diaries : A Latin American Journey — Worth consuming!
  14. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics ; L92) — Worth consuming!
  15. A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Dogville — Worth consuming!
  2. The Phantom of the Opera (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Transporter — Worth consuming!
  4. Visions of England — Worth consuming!
  5. Chaplin — Worth consuming!
  6. Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre — Worth consuming!
  7. Shanghai Knights — Worth consuming!
  8. Ella Enchanted (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. Jane Eyre [Import] — Worth consuming!
  10. The Letter — Worth consuming!
  11. Cinema Paradiso - The New Version — Worth consuming!

→ See more from August

September

Read:
  1. Mostly Harmless — Worth consuming!
  2. Ethan Frome (Signet Classics) — Worth consuming!
  3. Something Rotten: A Thursday Next Mystery — Worth consuming!
  4. The Glass Menagerie — Worth consuming!
  5. Heather Has Two Mommies: 10th Anniversary Edition (Alyson Wonderland) — Worth consuming!
  6. Something Blue — Worth consuming!
  7. The Undomestic Goddess — Worth consuming!
  8. The Well of Lost Plots — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Sin City — Worth consuming!
  2. Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Kiki's Delivery Service — Worth consuming!
  4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  5. Gangs of New York (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. Jane Eyre — Worth consuming!
  7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. Jane Eyre (1996) — Worth consuming!

→ See more from September

October

Read:
  1. Slaughterhouse-Five — Worth consuming!
  2. Marvel 1602 Volume 1 HC (Marvel Heroes) — Worth consuming!
  3. Preludes and Nocturnes (The Sandman, Vol. 1) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Polysyllabic Spree — Worth consuming!
  5. Siddhartha — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Million Dollar Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Crash (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!

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November

Read:
  1. The Essence of Style : How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafes, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The House of Mirth — Worth consuming!
  2. Brotherhood of Wolf (Spec Sub) — Worth consuming!
  3. Star Trek - Nemesis (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Grapes of Wrath — Worth consuming!

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December

Added to 43 Places:
  1. Gatineau — visited 6 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Zhongshan — Worth visiting!
  2. Guangdong — Worth visiting!
  3. Montreal — Worth visiting!
  4. Gatineau Park — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. rained
Read:
  1. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything — Worth consuming!
  2. The Crucible (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  3. Fight Club : A Novel (Literary Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House — Worth consuming!
  5. It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken : The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy — Worth consuming!
  6. The Great Movies II — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Metropolis — Worth consuming!
  2. The Blue Angel — Worth consuming!
  3. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. Heavenly Creatures — Worth consuming!
  5. Muriel's Wedding — Worth consuming!
  6. 2046 — Worth consuming!
  7. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe — Worth consuming!
  8. Intolerance (1916) (Silent) (B&W)
  9. From Here to Eternity — Worth consuming!
  10. Dr. Dolittle 2
  11. Brokeback Mountain — Worth consuming!
  12. The Lover — Worth consuming!

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